Jim Calhoun

What would an NBA draft hopeful say on a job application to his future company? Pro athlete online magazine The Players' Tribune asked a few players to fill out a mock employment questionnaire and Aurora's Ryan Boatright was game. Boatright certainly has credentials -- he helped lead the Connecticut Huskies to the 2014 national championship -- but can he draw the NBA logo from memory? Crude, but yes he can. The former East Aurora High School star also shared a few more insights into his mindset and personality as Thursday's NBA draft approaches. Nickname: Boat Show NBA player whose game he most resembles: Allen Iverson Best player in the NBA at his...

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What would an NBA draft hopeful say on a job application to his future company? Pro athlete online magazine The Players' Tribune asked a few players to fill out a mock employment questionnaire and Aurora's Ryan Boatright was game.
Boatright...

It's been a busy week for Geno Auriemma. He spent the last few days in Toronto watching UConn players Kia Nurse, Breanna Stewart and Moriah Jefferson playing in the Pan Am Games. He'll head out on the recruiting trail this week. In between, Auriemma spent...

Interest from the NBA might be flattering, but it does not help a college coach on the recruiting trail this time of year. UConn's Kevin Ollie tried to get out in front of all the rumors Wednesday morning, but when the Oklahoma City Thunder fired coach...

Dave Leitao, who coached DePaul from 2002-05, has been brought back to lead the men's basketball program.
Leitao, who led the Blue Demons to three postseason appearances in his first stint, left DePaul to take over at Virginia. He was there for four...

Jim Calhoun will be joining ESPN's college basketball broadcast team.Calhoun, who retired as UConn coach in September 2012 after 26 seasons and three national championships, will do most of his work in Bristol, ESPN's home base, providing studio analysis,...

AVON — Not many are invited to play golf with President Barack Obama. It's even less likely to get a rain check, like Ray Allen did."I had an opportunity over the winter to play with him because he came down to Miami," Allen said on Monday...

Former Miami Heat star Ray Allen said he is not ready to announce a decision about playing a 19th season.
"It's August and I don't want to rush to judgment," Allen said Friday night at the seventh annual Jim Calhoun Charity All-Star Classic....

Kevin Ollie has maintained all along that his heart was at UConn. Now he has a new five-year contract to remain as coach of the Huskies."Thank you, God, for opening up so many doors, for me to be working in Storrs," Ollie tweeted just after 2...

Let's take a look at the list of Kevin Ollie's predecessors as UConn men's baseball coach:No coach, 1901-1915: There was no coach for the first 89 games in program history.John Donahue, 1915-19: Huskies' first coach was 11-23 in four...

The NBA can wait. Kevin Ollie is staying at UConn.
Ollie, who led the Huskies to the national championship in his second season as men's basketball coach, and UConn are putting the finishing touches on a new contract that will more than double his annual...

With NBA teams looking for head coaches, Connecticut's Kevin Ollie is in a no-lose situation.Based on all that he has said, his heart remains with UConn and talks aimed at a new contract are underway, two sources told the Hartford Courant on Friday.A...

— UConn senior Shabazz Napier took a moment Saturday to reflect on the disappointing sophomore season that is a part of who he is now."My sophomore season, we had one of the best teams in the country," he said on the eve of the Huskies' Elite...

NEW YORK — Kevin Ollie was taking the first steps down a road very few have traveled with success, the hazard-filled, replacing-the-legend road. There at the start was Tom Izzo, who had done it.
"The thing that sticks out to me," Ollie said....

NEW YORK — It's one thing to have a majority of the fans rooting for you. It's another to truly have a home court advantage, to feel at home in a building.
The Huskies worked the Big Room like they owned it Friday night, as if they knew every dead spot...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some of the Huskies know the thrill of winning a national championship, and most know the emptiness of being barred from postseason play.
But perhaps the most important experience of all came in between, when UConn lost to Iowa State in...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – There is little doubt that Jim Calhoun remains a compelling figure. In Buffalo on Wednesday, as in Memphis during the AAC tournament, he was the most-interviewed person.Well, to be fair, coach Phil Martelli's grandson hadn't shown up.But...

NEW YORK — Kevin Ollie ducked through the tunnel like a prizefighter who'd just scored the knockout, a gantlet of Huskies fans reaching down to slap his back and his shoulder.
When he got to the other side, Jim Calhoun was there for a big hug, one of a...

HARTFORD — The last word was loud. The last word was emphatic. The last word had the devastating effect, elicited that unmistakably sullen silence that makes the last word so satisfying.
And in this storied, intense and always emotional college men's...

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — It would be overstating it to say that the Huskies shocked the world. But they did travel halfway around it to pull off a shocking upset in Kevin Ollie's first game as head coach.Shabazz Napier scored 25 points as the unranked...